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Mi papá es tacaño, él no paga para nada.

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pronunciation

Translation

My father is stingy, he doesn't pay for anything.



Analysis


mi
     1. det. (before the noun) apocopic form of mío, my
     2. n-f. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ
papá
     1. n-m. (colloquial familiar affectionate) dad
     2. n-m. (colloquial familiar affectionate in the plural) parents
es
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of ser; (he/she/it/one) is
     2. n. plural of e
     ser
          1. v. to be (essentially or identified as)
          2. v. to be (in the passive voice sense)
          3. v. to exist; to occur
          4. n-m. a being, organism
          5. n-m. nature, essence
          6. n-m. value, worth
     e
          1. conj. and
tacaño
     1. adj. stingy, miserly, cheap, tight-fisted, niggardly, mean, penny-pinching
     2. n-m. miser, cheapskate, tightwad, skinflint, penny pincher, niggard (someone avoiding to spend money)
él
     1. pron. he, him, masculine personal third person subject and disjunctive pronoun (used as a subject and after prepositions)
     2. pron. it, masculine non-personal third-person subject and disjunctive pronoun (used as a subject and after prepositions to refer to masculine nouns)
no
     1. adv. no
     2. adv. not
     3. interj. eh? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said)
     4. n-m. no
     5. n-m. abbreviation of número; no.
paga
     1. n-f. payment
     2. n-f. payoff
     3. n-f. salary
     4. n-f. allowance (gloss: money parents periodically give to their children)
     5. v. third-person singular present indicative of pagar
     pagar
          1. v. to pay
          2. v. to be worthwhile, to have a pay off
para
     1. prep. for, to (expressing a recipient)
     2. prep. to, in order to, so, for (expressing the intended purpose of an action)
     3. prep. by, due, due on, due by (expressing a deadline)
     4. prep. for (expressing contrast from what is expected)
     5. prep. for, to, in one's opinion, as far as one is concerned (expressing an opinion, perception or perspective)
     6. prep. for (expressing using one's efforts for a group or an authority figure such as a sports team or a company/boss)
     7. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of parir
     parar
          1. v. to stop, halt
          2. v. to put up, stand up
          3. v. to lift, raise
          4. v. to stand up
          5. v. to situate oneself
          6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, Chile) see pararlas
nada
     1. pron. nothing, zero, zilch, not...anything
     2. n-f. nothingness, nothing
     3. n-f. nowhere, the void
     4. v. informal second-person singular affirmative imperative of nadar
     nadar
          1. v. to swim
          2. v. to be swimming in (used with "en")
para nada
     1. adv. not at all, absolutely not




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